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Data Privacy: inBloom, the Non-Profit Data Repository for Student Data Shutting Down
Associations and Organizations, Dashboards, Data Files, Funding, News, Open Access, Video Recordings
|From Education Week: Founded in 2011 with $100 million in support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, inBloom aimed to serve as a data repository for states and districts, storing and cleaning a wide range of student information, then making it available to district-approved third parties to […]
Registration Required. Free access to data via Basic Search. More robust search is fee-based. From Today’s Announcement: FreeERISA, the online 5500 database is announcing the release of its newly redesigned plan dashboard and research tools. The improvements make it easy to locate and understand plan data, enabling visitors to find what they need more quickly. […]
Altmetrics: EBSCO Acquires Plum Analytics
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Dashboards, Data Files, EBSCO, Funding, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Publishing
|The following news was announced this morning. Links to background items about Plum Analytics are found the bottom of this post. Congrats to Andrea and Mike! Here’s the official announcement from EBSCO. In a deal that brings together the leading subscription services, database, e-book and discovery provider with the leading provider of alternative research metrics, […]
Scholarly Publishing: CrossRef Set to Launch a Text and Data Mining Service Named Prospect in Early 2014
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Dashboards, Data Files, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing
|In the new issue of CrossRef Quarterly, CrossRef’s Executive Director, Ed Pentz writes: CrossRef’s text and data mining service was just approved by the board at its November meeting. [Clip] The service is scheduled to roll out in early 2014. There are two main aspects of the service: 1) a common text and data mining (TDM) API that […]
Scribd Signs Deal With Smashwords, Will Provide Access to 225,000 eBooks By Independent Authors
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Dashboards, Data Files, News
|From a News Release and Scribd Blog Post: Scribd’s ebook subscription service featuring 100,000+ titles including thousands of bestsellers and new releases, today announced it has signed a deal with Smashwords, the world’s largest distributor of independent e-books, to make available Smashwords titles on Scribd. Smashwords brings Scribd a catalog of over 225,000 e-books from […]
Update: Plum Analytics Blog Post With Examples of How They’re Using WorldCat Data Includes multiple screenshots. From OCLC: OCLC has established a partnership with Plum Analytics, an altmetrics organization that develops analytical tools for scholars and researchers, to leverage WorldCat data to help researchers better analyze and measure the impact of their work. [Clip] Plum Analytics has integrated the WorldCat […]
Note: We first posted about FutureLearn on February 18, 2013 when The British Library became the first non-university institution to join the project. From Today’s Launch Announcement: FutureLearn, the first UK-led provider of massive open online courses (MOOCs), is from today offering learners around the world access to free, high quality courses from its internationally […]
eBooks in Libraries: “Startup Atingo Promises ‘Radical’ Approach to E-Book Library Lending”
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Dashboards, Libraries, News, Publishing
|Atingo is being developed by Publit, a company based in Sweden. From a Guest Column in Publishing Perspectives by Jonas Lennermo, CCO of Publit: One of the most important things when developing those missing pieces is to realize that the library is a marketplace for the publisher. The more money the publisher makes on the […]
Springshare has details on their support blog. The blog posts makes it clear that all of the new features are opt-in and customers can, “decide the right time for your site to move to the new system.” They add, “you take however long you need to plan and execute the move.” Here are a few […]
Impelsys Introduces eBook Ordering System for Libraries, Developed in Partnership with Douglas County Libraries
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Dashboards, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Public Libraries, Publishing
|On December 27, 2012 Colorado’s Douglas Country Libraries first publicly announced they had partnered with Impelsys. The announcement pointed out: Once the beta test phase is complete, the dashboard will be available from Impelsys for purchase by other libraries. The beta is now over (that was fast) and the service is now being formally launched. […]